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Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson pulled out of a deal Monday to build a $1.9 billion domed stadium for the Oakland Raiders in Las Vegas. The move comes on the heels of a team proposal to pay $1 a year in rent and operate the stadium, and it deprives the project of a chief financial backer...

A plush elephant pillow that could suffocate a baby, a plastic hammer with the potential to cause head injuries, and a slingshotlike device that shoots balls of slime that could cause eye injuries were singled out Tuesday by a child safety group as among 10 dangerous toys for sale this holiday...

Ohio State moved into second in the College Football Playoff rankings behind Alabama, with Michigan and Clemson still in the top four after losing for the first time this season. Louisville was fifth and Washington dropped from fourth to sixth after its first loss. Clemson, Michigan and Washington...

Macy's is raising its sales outlook for the year after it saw an improvement in its business in the third quarter, a trend that it expects to continue. Macy's had been a stellar performer after the recession but has seen slower sales growth in the past year and a half as it faces stiffer competition...

Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, including the seizure of Elian Gonzalez, died early Monday. She was 78. Reno died from complications of Parkinson's disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D'Alemberte...

'Tis the season of earnings in the Lehigh Valley and across the country. In digesting these reports, investors, newspaper readers and even reporters can be thrown by the lingo of finance — a nearly incomprehensible language used by brokers, analysts and accountants to signal what's happening in...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on explosive devices being found in two states (all times local): 7:30 p.m. A New Jersey congressman says that the Afghan immigrant arrested in the New York-region bombings contacted his office from Pakistan in 2014 to help get his pregnant wife a visa. Rep. Albio...

An explosion rocked a crowded Manhattan neighborhood and injured 29 people, and a suspicious device discovered blocks away was safely removed early Sunday. Mayor Bill de Blasio ruled out any terror connections but called the blast an "intentional act.""Tonight, New York City experienced a very...